Friday, October 11, 1968
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Apps Trounce Elon 70To26
Trover heisley uses educated toe for Christians Fumbles Give AppS
Two Quick Scores
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Grover Heisley, Elon’s freshman kicking specialist
from Richmond, Va., is pictured above as he puts
a toe to the football. Bruce McFerren, also an Elon
freshman from Newport News, is shown holding the
football for Heisley to put a toe to the pigskin, and
this twosome teamed to produce twelve consecutive
points after touchdown in Elon’s first two games a-
gainst Concord and Guilford, The smaller picture, at
the right above, shows the special kicking toe which
Heisley uses as he boots the ball through the up
rights for points after touchdown and field goals.
Elon Gridders Show
Improved Statistics
The Elon Christians,
while winning both of their
first two games with
Concord and Guilford this
fall, showed a definite im
provement over their sta
tistical marks set in the
first two games of the
1967 season.
These 1968 Christians
have scored 87 points this
year in two games, com
pared with 41 in the first
two tilts a year ago,and
they have held the oppo
sition to 22 points, com
pared with 30 points in
two games last fall.
The Christian offen
sive unit has moved the
ball for 777 yards in to
tal offense in these first
two games this fall, an
average of 388.5 yards
per game, compared with
a two-game total offense
last fall of 549 yards.
This represented an im-.
provement of better than
125 yards per game.
There is not much
difference in the defen-
sive totals for the two
seasons. The Christians
allowed the opposition 679
yards in the first two
games last fall compared
with 660 yards in com
bined running and pass-
in two tilts this sea
son, an improvement of
about 10 yards per game.
Elon Football
Elon 66, Concord 12,
Elon 21, Guilford, 10,
(Remaining Games)
Oct. 5 — Appalachian,A„
Oct. 12 - Presbyterian A,
Oct. 19 - C. Newman, H,
Oct. 26 - Catawba, H.
Nov. 2 - W. Carolina, A.
Nov. 9 - Newberry, H
Nov. 16 — L. Rhyne, H.
Heisley Breaks Old
Elon Kicking Marks
The improved offensive
total for the Christians
this year has been in the
aerial attack, for Elon
has completed 29 of 43
passes this fall for a to
tal of 503 yards, com
pared with 16 completions
in 44 attempts last fall
for a two-game total of
253 yards.
The Elon punting also
shows a slightly better
mark, with Christian
kickers booting for an av
erage of 39.0 yards in this
year’s two openers, com
pared with an average ot
38.4 yards per kick at
the same time last fall.
Elon backs have run back
kicks for a total of 201
yards in two games this
fall, compared with 84
yards in two games last
fall. Kickoff returns have
been less this fall than
a year ago,
tians have returned only
four kickoffs this year
compared with nine in the
two openers last fall.
The individual leaders
in the statistics show
Burgin Beale as t°P
man in passing and in
total offense with 451
yards in passijig and 468
yards in combinedpass
ing and rushing, Emery
Moore as the toP u,
rushing- with 166 yards,
It’s not often that a
freshman football play
er wins heroism and ac
claim from the Elon Col
lege student body, but
such was the fortune of
Grover Heisley 111, an
Elon first-year gridder
from Richmond, Va.
His good fortune came
when he used his educated
toe for a total of 12 points
in Elon’s 66 to 12 vic
tory over the Concord
College Lions from West
Virginia in the very first
grid game of the 1968
season.
Never in all of Elon’s
more than half a century
of Elon football history
had any Christian grid
der booted more than six
extra points after touch
down. Pete Williams,one
of Elon’s immortals of the
gridiron, did it against
Apprentice School back in
1930, and chubby Bobby
Ferrell, duplicated that
six-point performance a-
gainst Frederick in 1964,
In each of those gamss
Pete Williams and Bobby
Ferrell kicked six place
ments in seven ties after
touchdowns, but Grover
Heisley booted nine in
nine tries against Con
cord in the 1968 season-
opener tobreakboth Will
iams’ and Ferrell’s rec
ords wide open.
Just to add to his very
fine booting record, Heis
ley also kicked a field
goal from the 30-yard
line to run his total for
a single game to 12 points,
which also represented a
one-game record for Elon
football.
As far as the Elon
freshman kicking spe
cialist looks, he appears
as if he came down from
a much higher league. If
his toe antics continue
through four seasons of
Elon football he can look
forward to going into an
even higher league, per
haps into the NFL, where
Lou Groza and his rivals
have set some pretty fan
tastic records.
Young Grover Heisley
III once scored 21 points
a game for the colle-
Richard McGeorge as the
top passreceiver with 13
catches for 206 yards,
Ronnie O’Brien as the
top kick return man and
Jackie Greene as the top
punter.
giate Pre of Richmond,
Va., two field goals and
fifteen extra points. The
score of that game made
the Elon 66 to 12 victory
over Concord look like a
close game.
Young Heisley credits
his father, Grover Heis
ley 11, for much of his
talent. Grover Two has a
Ph. D. in chemistry,and
he designed the special
shoe that Grover Three
uses to boot the football.
"Most kickers,” Grov
er Three explains, “'use
a special shoe, some with
a steel plate, almost all
with a square toe. My
shoe does not have a plate,
but the sole is extended
about a quarter inch be
yond the toe. Plastic wood
is on the extension.”
“As long as 1 hit the
ball with that sole-plastic
wood extension slightly
below center, 1 will nev
er miss. If I should hap
pen to hit the ball with
the top of the shoe in
stead of the extension, a
miss will more than like
ly occur.”
"The holder,” he went
on, “is very important.
Bruce McFerreh, of
Newport News, holds for
me here at Elon, and he
does a great job, 1 don’t
like to change holders
when 1 get a goodone. The
farther 1 wanter to kick
a ball, the more he slants
it, so that the ball goes
higher and for more dis
tance, I kick stiff-legged,
which is different from
most kickers,and I prac
tice a lot too,”
Coach Red Wilson, who
directs The Elon grid for
tunes, says that he has
his entire team rush to
ward Grover Heisley
when he is practicing, but
Heisley calmly boots
them through the up
rights.
Heisley also has his
kick off duties for the
Elon Christians, and he
has put over half the kick
offs into the end zone,
which means that the op
position is strictly nuts
when it tries to run such
kickoffs back.
Both Heisley and Coach
Wilson feel that he will
be able to hit a big per
centage of points after
TD’s and that he will be
able to kick field goals for
Elon up to 50 yards in
the next few years.
After striking for three
quick touchdowns in the
first period, two of them
coming when Elon fum
bled kickoffs at the goal
line, the Appalachian
Mountaineers unleashed a
literal mountain ava
lanche of TD’s and ex
tra points to trample the
seemingly dazed Elon
Christians 70 to 26 at
Boone last Saturday
night.
The first two App
scores came before the
game was one minute old,
both following Elon fum
bles of kickoffs, and they
came on a sustained drive
to give Appalachian a 21-
0 lead after one quarter.
Elon rallied then for a
TD on a sustained drive
that cut the count to 21-
6. Another Mountie score
ran the App margin to
28-6, but this was fol
lowed by two quick Elon
TDS, both of passes from
Burgin Beale to Mc
George for one and to
O’Brien for the other.
Elon tries for extra
points failed, and the
Mounties led 28-18, but
Appalachian pulled two
other scores from the hat
before half-time to run
the count to 42-18 at the
intermission break.
Soon after the half,Elon
launched its final scoring
thrust of the night, with
Beale tossing a 50-yard
scoring pass to Jim Wall
er and following with a
2-point toss to Larry
Holder to cut the margin
to 42-26.
However, that was the
Elon score for the night,
and the Apps continued to
roll for four other TD’s
to total 70 points, the
highest score ever made
against a Christian ele
ven in all history.
Figure Facts
Elon ASU
15 First Downs 24
116 Yds. Gain Rush. 366
31 Yds. Lost Rush. 10
85 Net Yards Rush. 356
37 Passes Attempt. 23
16 Passes Complet. 12
259 Yds. Gain. Pass. 201
344 Total Yds. Off, 557
1 Opp. Passes Interc. 4
22 Runback Int. Pass. 49
8 Number Punts 7
42.5 Ave. Yds. Punts 49.4
175 Runback All Kicks 84
2 Fumbles Lost 1
35 Yds. Penalized 72
SCORE BY PERIODS:
Elon 6 12 8 0 — 26
ASU 21 21 14 14 — 70
Elon Touchdowns —
Sharpe (7-run), Mc
George (lO-pass from
Beale), Waller (50-pass
from Beale), O’Brien (5-
pass from Beale). Extra
Points — Holder 2 (pass
from Beale). Appalachian
Touchdowns — Kerr 3
(33-run, 8-run, 14-pass
from Murphy); Agle 2-
(25-pass from Murphy,
14-pass from Murphy),
Roten 2 (5-run, 1-run),
Murphy (3-run), Neeld
(18 pass interception,
Deskins (41-run). Extra
Points — Wood 10 (kicks).